Courage is forged in pain, but not in all pain. Pain that is denied or ignored becomes fear or hate.
One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations.
Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
Every challenge, every adversity, contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth.
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
I find no importance in showing others that I am happy; it's not important to me that they know or think that I am happy but what is important to me is that I am happy. I am interested in being happy,...
I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need.
He was no god, just an artist; and when an artist is a man, he needs a woman to create like a god.
I have had no contact with the Chinese government. I only work with journalists.
Be your best proponent, ally, and advocate.
Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.